At a Tsunami in Indonesia’s coast are more than 40 people have been killed. Hundreds have been injured. The flood waves hit the narrow sea between the Islands of Sumatra and Java.
Indonesia has once again been of a Tsunami. According to previous findings of authorities, more than 40 people were killed. More than 580 people were injured. Many people were still missing.
As the civil protection authority of the country more informed, met the waves, especially as Sundastraße famous Strait between the Islands of Sumatra and Java. Including also, the beaches in Pandeglang, Serang, and South Lampung. Hundreds of buildings had been destroyed.
in plunging waves, and people flee in panic, flooded streets and overturned cars are seen on Videos, the spokesman for the Indonesian disaster management authority published. He fears that the number of dead was rising, wrote Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
As the cause of the Tsunami on Saturday night (local time), it is presumed that landslide in the sea as a result of an eruption of the volcano Anak Krakatoa, “child of Krakatoa”,. For years, he is active, in the past few months, he broke out again and again. The volcanic island was formed after the devastating eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, 36,000 people died. The many Islands of Indonesia lie on the Pacific ring of fire, a Region with a particularly strong tectonic activity.
2000 people died in Tsunami in September
The island state of Indonesia is frequently struck by Tsunami flood wave home. These are usually caused by earthquakes under the sea floor.
In the case of a severe earthquake and a subsequent Tsunami came only at the end of September on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, more than 2000 people died, thousands were injured. In some places, liquified the sandy soil and swallowed up whole streets and villages. More than 200,000 people lost their homes. There is property damage in the billions.
When the Tsunami at the end of September, was also destroyed this mosque in Palu.